Nicola Bombacci

Nicola Bombacci (24 October 1879-28 April 1945) was an Italian labor unionist, politician, and journalist loyal to the National Fascist Party of Benito Mussolini. He was executed by partisans in April 1945 during World War II.

Biography
Nicola Bombacci was born in Forli, Italy on 24 October 1879, and he joined the Italian Socialist Party as a young man. He joined the far-left wing of the party, and he became secretary of the Socialist Party in 1919, winning 32.3% of parliament in the largest Socialist Party victory. However, clashes with the right wing of the party led to Bombacci's resignation. In 1921, he became one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party, and in 1936 he confessed that he adhered to both communism and fascism. In 1945, he told a crowd in Genoa that Benito Mussolini would make socialism and not Joseph Stalin, and he was one of the few leftist members of a fascist regime, the Italian Social Republic. On 28 April 1945, he was captured by partisans and executed at Dongo, with his last words being, "Long live Mussolini! Long live socialism!" He was displayed upside-down along with the corpses of Benito Mussolini and other fascist leaders.